In an attempt to gain your custom in the lucrative but crowded mobile phone market, third party retailers are throwing in as many goodies as they can into their pay monthly deals.
The top deal I have found is at Dial a Phone. Reason being because you can get a decent little phone, a lovely laptop AND staggered cash-back. Opt for Orange's Dolphin 26 over 24 months and you'll get 400 minutes, unlimited texts, a free HP laptop, an LG GM360 and £70 cash-back - all for £26 a month. That's hard to beat.
The LG GM360 is a solid little handset. Its no iPhone, but it does offer a 5 Mega-pixel Schneider lens equipped camera and some nice quirky features (favourite contacts appear on the home screen as little characters - touch them to call, send a text, edit their profile etc). The real star of this deal however, is the HP DM1-4027SA. Any pay monthly mobile phone deal offering a free laptop is not going to give you a top of the range machine, but passing over useless netbooks and breeze block size low-enders finds you the delightful little HP. With an 11.6" screen it is in the ranges of larger netbooks, but is marketed as a portable laptop. With 4GB of RAM and a 320 GB hard drive it is fairly fast with a decent amount of storage for a machine of its size, but the real treat is the Beats audio technology speakers. They are simply superb and the best you will find on any laptop.
If you are in the market for a new contract, don't mind not having a top-end phone and wouldn't mind a free laptop then this may be the deal for you. Or if you are looking for a new laptop and find yourself near the end of your mobile contract at the same time then this also could be just what you're looking for. For those who want a better phone you can get a similar deal with the competent Samsung Ace for £31 a month at the same site.
The link for the LG/HP/Cash-back deal is on the Mobiles link page.
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